Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, April 9, 2012

We are changing up activities in each of the rooms, the Willow Room is doing planting, flowers, gardens, spring, butterflies, moth and preparing for Mother's Day activities.  The Maple Room is doing butterflies, moths, spring, and Mother's Day activities and the Oak room is doing under the sea activities as well as Mother's Day preparations and a little spring time butterflies too.

Every year we order caterpillars and a luna moth cocoon for each classroom and love watching the transformation with the children.  We always make it a big celebration to release the butterflies and moth out in the courtyard.

We all played outside today, with the temperatures going up and down, be sure to send jackets or sweaters to school.

 
Stay & Play :  
We read "The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog" by Mo Willems

We decorated fish shapes to add to the Oak rooms ocean mural.

We danced with scarves, did a shape matching puzzle- find the person who has the piece that matches yours.

We had some magnet objects on the board and the children had to guess which one was missing.

Willow Room:

We read "Planting a rainbow" by Lois Ehlert

We are talking about the letter R and asked the children if their name begins with a letter R?

We planted our Mother's Day surprise.

We are learning a new song to sing to our mom's at our party. May there always be sunshine.

We looked at objects that start with the letter R, we talked about the sound the letter makes.

Maple Room:

We read "Clara the caterpillar" by Pamela Duncan Edwards

We painted small paper plates for our classroom caterpillar.

We did The April song, and some Mother's day songs.

We did letter W activities, we had out white boards and markers to practice writing letters and words.  WE had out cards with words and pictures on them.

Oak Room:

We read "Gilbert the Great" by Jane Clake and Charles Fuge we also read "A fishy story" by Marcus Pfister

We made Jelly fish with paper bowls.  We painted the outside of the bowls brights pretty colors and added strings and streamers to be the tentacles.  They will hang in our room.  (I will add pictures later)

We did Sticky bubble gum, come and buy a smiley face, 5 little fish swimming in the sea for music today.

We brought in a water table for water play today.